How To Install flatpak-builder.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-builder.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. flatpak-builder.x86_64 is Build helper for flatpak

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-builder.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is flatpak-builder.x86_64

flatpak-builder is a tool that makes it easy to build applications and their dependencies by automating the configure && make && make install steps.

We can use yum to install flatpak-builder.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flatpak-builder.x86_64.

Install flatpak-builder.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flatpak-builder.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flatpak-builder.x86_64

How To Uninstall flatpak-builder.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the flatpak-builder.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove flatpak-builder.x86_64

flatpak-builder.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/flatpak-builder
/usr/share/doc/flatpak-builder
/usr/share/doc/flatpak-builder/docbook.css
/usr/share/doc/flatpak-builder/flatpak-builder-docs.html
/usr/share/man/man1/flatpak-builder.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/flatpak-manifest.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-builder.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.